Farewell Aperture, for now.

$199 seems steep for an application that runs like molasses on my fairly well-spec’ed machine; a MacBook Pro 2.53GHz with 4 GB of RAM. I like Aperture’s RAW editing features. Once I got the hang of them that is. Butâ€¦ damn this application is slow. This was with a library of less than 100 photos. I note that iPhoto bogs down once its library exceeds 5000 images. Aperture was dog slow right from the very first image.

Every once in a while I would see some moment of brilliance, and think I was falling in love with the software. Then it would smack me with a spinning cursor and drive me away. I would hope that a trial period would show you all the reasons to love a new product, but in this case it just drove me back to using iPhoto + Photoshop.

I’m open to being convinced otherwise, so feel free to chime in if you have a differing opinion.

Chuck: slow on import, slow when browsing, slow when updating image after adjustments, beach ball of death â€¦ crashes and a corrupted library. But after i registered and ran the updates no problems what so ever. Running on a unibody macbook pro 2.53 GHz and a MacPro â€¦ both had issues with the demo…